John E. Farley is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where he has taught courses ranging from introductory sociology to a course in advanced data analysis for graduate students. He is the author of two other textbooks, Majority-Minority Relations, Sixth Edition (2010) and American Social Problems: An Institutional Analysis, Second Edition (1992). His articles on his sociological research have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Urban Affairs Quarterly, and a number of other journals.

Michael W. Flota is Professor and Chair of the School of Social Science at Daytona State College, where he teaches Introduction to Sociology every semester, and serves as the Managing Editor for the Journal of Florida Studies.

J. Scott Carter is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, Florida. He has published in several journals, including the Annual Review of Sociology, Social Problems, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Social Science Research, Social Science Quarterly, and the Journal of Family Issues, to name a few. He is also co-author of the book The Death of Affirmative Action? Racialized Framing and the Fight Against Racial Preference in College Admissions (2021) and co-editor of the book Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality (2020).